Tuesday, October 31

Tuesday, October 31           

Letter Focus: Nn

 Popcorn Word: in
 Handwriting: Letter N
Reading Skills: Reader's Theater Book: About Me

         Echo-Reading Checklist
~Point out the rise and fall of the voice during the reading.
~Read smoothly and in phrased units.
~Pause or stop at the end of a sentence with a period.
~Read the text as if you were talking to someone.
~Demonstrate how you speak louder and with more emphasis when the sentence ends with an exclamation mark.                                                   

DAILY 5: The kids are making gains in their reading stamina...6 minutes yesterday! 

Music Today

Math: Skeleton Shake, Rattle, and Roll Dice Game

Academic Halloween Party Activities
~Halloween Phonics Bingo
~Draw-a-Rhyme: Spooky Monster
~Decorate a Pumpkin Shape
**At 2:15, we will go on a costume parade throughout the elementary hallways.

 
**The children will assist in making the "FRANKENtreat" pudding snack (See Picture above) and hear spooky stories.

~Have a fun and safe night of trick-or-treating! We invite you to send in any extra candy that you won't eat to send to the troops over seas.
~Keep having your child practice their sight words! If you need a list, let me know what list number to send home with your child.

Monday, October 30

Monday, October 30

Letter Focus: Nn

 Sight Word Focus: in

Reading Skills: Reader's Theater Book: About Me


We are building a Concept Web about "Who am I?"

SMART Room
DAILY 5: We continue to work on growing our stamina in order to sustain 'Read to Self' for longer lengths of time. The only way to do this is to practice, practice, practice. :)

Math: Number Order

Today we are going to talk about ordering numbers. First I want to lay my number cards (1 - 5) out in order. “2 is more than 1, 3 is fewer than 5.”  Embedding this language will help students contextualize this vocabulary for future use. I want to be sure I put them in the right order, so I will need to go back and recount to make sure they are right. Now I want to start building trains of cubes to match the number I have.  So for 1, I will just lay down one cube.  For 2, I know that 2 is 1 more, so I will snap 2 cubes together. I know that 3 is one more than 2, so I will need 3 cubes.   Continue until you have trains laid out for 1-5. 

Whole Group Explore: Today, you and your partner will make number trains for 1 - 5.   You will get to be a little creative. Instead of using cubes, your partner and you will use leaves. You will color and cut the leaves out and create a leaf train.     

Student Application: Students will complete their own leaf train response sheet to match the one they created with their partner.  

                     PhyEd Today       
  Computer class today.

~We enjoyed celebrating with Andy...

~The children will change into their costumes at 1:00 tomorrow for our party.

Friday, October 27

                    Friday, October 27
Happy Birthday Andy! (October 29)

Letter Focus: Letter Review (L, M)

Sight Word Review: it, an

Literacy Shelf: The children choose from a wide variety of activities to work with letters, sounds, and rhyming.

DAILY 5
We are learning how to 'Read to Self' by building stamina for reading behaviors. This takes time and practice to develop. Yesterday, the kids made it 5 minutes of uninterrupted reading on their own! Our goal is about 7-10 minutes.

Character Education: First, Mrs. Weninger
will review the Social Detective skills (Use your eyes, ears, brain and heart) and then she will introduce the Unthinkables, Energy Hare-y who is very fidgety and Space Invader who is always touching someone.

Project: Scarecrow

Library Day
Math: Decomposing (taking apart) the #10 in a variety of ways.

~The children really enjoyed the storybook reader yesterday! She pulled out props to dress the turkey as she moved through the story...

Have a GREAT weekend!

Thursday, October 26

Thursday, October 26

Letter Focus: Mm
 Sight Word Focus: an

 Handwriting: Letter M

Reading Skills
We are rereading the Three Little Pigs to build fluency and develop "Tier Two Vocabulary" by focusing in on sound words (slammed, knocked, whispered, bump, thump, splash)

Literacy Shelf: The children choose from a wide variety of activities to work with letters, sounds, and rhyming.

DAILY 5
We are learning how to 'Read to Self' by building stamina for reading behaviors. This takes time and practice to develop. Yesterday, the kids made it 3 minutes of uninterrupted reading on their own! Our goal is about 7-10 minutes...they are well on their way to becoming independent readers!
A storybook reader is scheduled for 9:30 to read Turkey Trick or Treat.

Math: Decomposing (taking apart) the # 9 in a variety of ways and drawing those varieties.

SMART Room

PhyEd Day

 Time for Kids: Ready to Take Off